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Citizens News, December 15, 1977
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Winter driving tips
In keeping with the time of year and
the accompaning weather conditions, some
winter driving tips from RW. Wilson, Com-
munity Services Officer, Goderich detach-
ment, Ontario Provincial Police seem ap-
propriate.
When road conditions are slippery and
your engine is running at fast idle because
it is cold, it is difficult to stop quickly. If
you have an automatic transmission in
your car select the neutral position as you
approach the stop ahead and pump your
brake pedal. You will find stopping will be
much faster with more control, due to your
engine no longer driving your wheels at its
fast idle speed.
Please do not call the Ontario Provin-
urs `
The Church Councils are beginning to
take a very strong stand on many of the
social and economic ills of our country. We
commend them for this as they speak for a
great many people and this form of
leadership is needed.
A resolution from the Saskatchewan
conference of the United Church of Canada
to the 27th general council has taken a "no -
holds -barred" approach to commercial
advertising. It would like to do away with
almost all of it.
We cannot agree with many of the
points brought out in the resolution.
"Advertising encourages excess. The
Canadian way of life, encouraged by adver-
tising, results in our being the eternal
suckers — Advertisingmedia
and the in
Canada portray a false image of an affluent
society that is only really for the four per-
cent of the top. We can hardly pretend that
we have freedom of speech when so much
of the revenue for our media comes from
advertising.
Advertising is often unfairly the whip-
ping boy for the financial difficulties in
which people find themselves. Yet there
are so many other factors that have a
direct bearing on this — over -buying, keep-
cial Police for road and weather con-
ditions.
For Weather Forecasts and Conditions
call the Weather Station Goderich 524-9331.
For Provincial Highway Conditions
call MTC Stratford 271-3550.
The Ministry of Transportation and
Communications (MTC) in Stratford
receives reports from all of its agencies in
this area every few hours when road con-
ditions are bad and are prepared to give
you up-to-date road conditions.
The OPP cannot give you these reports
as it is not their function. Don't waste a call
- call the above numbers.
An informed public is a safer one.
nacceptable
ing up with the neighbours, the affluent
society we have come to expect as our due
in the western world, and credit buying.
However, perhaps the greatest factor rare-
ly cited is the lack of moral, ethical and
work standards we have adopted today.
We do not think people are "eternal
suckers". We think that many people are
very shrewd shoppers. Realizing that
advertising keeps prices down they do a lot
of comparative shopping through the media
before going out to spend their dollars and
it has been proven that advertising does
keep prices down. Also, the Advertising
Council has very rigid standards and keeps
a close watch on false advertising.
As for the inference that freedom of
speech is influenced by
advertising is an
unwarranted slur on the media. There have
been dozens and dozens of recorded cases
where advertising dollars have been refus-
ed on moral and ethical grounds by the
media.
Many advertisments are informative
and educational. Should these be banned?
Or the church advertising that is actually
selling their particular brand of religion?
Freedom of speech is the right of all.
Meaford Express
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Miscellaneous
Rumblings
By
TOM CREECIH
An Ode t i winter
Last week's weather played havoc with practically
every aspect of normal everyday life and the Times Ad-
vocate where the Citizens News is put together, was no ex-
eption.
Both papers are printed at a firm called Webco in Hyde
Park which is on the northwest periphery of London. The
post printing activities of the Times Advocate involve much
handwork which is supplied by several employees residing
in London.
With the large snowfall that London experienced it was
darn near impossible for our London employees to travel to
Hyde Park so a makeshift crew consisting of this writer and
three other brave (or stupid) individuals was recruited in
an attempt to get the T -A out.
Between John Varley who transports the plates down to
Webco, Mickie Struyke of the composition department and
this writer who's had some experience in post printing ac-
tivities, we had the paper done in a time span of about two
hours longer than it normally would take.
The ironic part of this whole episode is that it seems
rather incredulous that it was easier for a group of people to
travel 35 miles than for another group to travel less than 10
miles. Such are the consequences of a mechanized society:
one that can cope with a lot of snow and one that can't.
There once was a man from the Goshen,
Who acquired a silly notion,
While out in some snow,
That started to blow,
He put his truck into motion.
Soon the winds began to howl and howl,
Not fit for a person let alone an owl.
As he progressed as fast as a tank,
Low and behold he found a snow bank.
When he recovered,
He began to discover,
To travel after fall,
Made no sense at all.
Though deep with sorrow and filled with fright,
Our wearied traveller could see the light,
For in the distance amid flying snow,
Came deafening sounds and lights aglow.
At first he could not believe his eyes,
As people gave him many "Hi's! ",
That friends from both far and near,
Would test him for some Christmas cheer.
Remember the poetry_writing which we all had to do
when we hit the middle years of public school? Remember
that some kids' poetry could make Robert Service or
Robert Frost look pale in comparison? I was never one of
those children and thirteen years later my technique has
not improved appreciably. (as the 1100 people who purchase
this paper now know.) But what the heck...maybe
somebody from the Ontario Arts Council will read this
column, "discover" me, give me a thousand dollars and en-
courage me to develope my "talent" further.
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